A campaign is underway to replaced the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of the continent and its size.

South Africa is prioritizing a policy-review process that may result in Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other satellite-internet companies being allowed to operate in Africa’s largest economy without ceding ownership,

LONDON (Reuters) -Efforts by some African nations to attract luxury tourism have yielded limited benefits for local communities, with new research by the University of Manchester saying on Tuesday that it often causes more harm than good.

Brash, controversial and unafraid to speak his mind, South Africa's Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie has been swift to call out racism in others but he himself has now been branded a racist - a charge he refutes.

South Africans is starting a “national dialogue” hat is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss the country's pressing issues and find solutions.

South Africa’s National Development Plan is targeting easy access to affordable broadband for 100% of the population by 2030. The government would be naive not to embrace new technologies — and in particular satellite technologies — to increase South Africa’s broadband connectivity, the minister said.

Naoki Ando, senior vice-president of Japan International Cooperation Agency, the implementing agency of Japan’s aid policy, says that the country will stick by its model of development assistance over aid. Pressures at home would make it hard to directly plug the gaps left by the US and Europe in healthcare and agriculture, he says.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African mobile network operator MTN Group is facing an investigation by a U.S. Department of Justice grand jury into its conduct and that of its former subsidiary in Afghanistan and an Iranian cell phone carrier it partly owns, the company said.

TICAD is a Japan-hosted international aid conference that dates back to 1993 and was last held in Tunisia in 2022. China has also been holding a forum on African cooperation since 2000 and has been increasing involvement in the resource-rich continent, including through its Belt and Road infrastructure projects.

Africa’s second-biggest aluminum smelter may close in March after operator South32 Ltd. is yet to secure a new electricity supply agreement before the current one expires. The company’s shares plunged.

The South African government has dismissed the U.S. State Department’s latest assessment of the country's human rights conditions as “inaccurate and deeply flawed.”

A new ranking by the United Nations has shown that Nigeria is currently Africa's eighth most industrialised country, holding the 98th position globally.